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The book titled Voltaire, Goldberg and Others: A Compendium of the Witty, the Profound by the author Milton Shulman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The essential guide for all writers. With over 700 examples of original and edited sentences, this book provides information about editing techniques, grammar, and usage for every writer from the...

The text of this Second Edition is based on the second quarto (1604-1605), with occasional references to the folio. In order to help the reader place the play in the...

Shaped by the increasing commercialization of economic relations, the social agitation of the agricultural and artisan classes, and the growing formalization of status consciousness, the cultural landscape of late medieval...

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has...

'The must-read book of the year, Blake Morrison writes about his mother with the mind of a poet, the eye of a detective and the heart of a loving son'...

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW Inventory of...

The park is full of things to spot. From spring blossom, bees and butterflies to autumn leaves and rainy skies, little observers will love discovering the wonder in the world...

The book titled She Changes: A Goddess Myth for Modern Women by the author Teressa Mark. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a literary journey of an Australian writer's encounter with the culture and people of China, particularly its young writers and artists, and of the evolving influence of China...

A gang of excitable skunks is off to the water park for a fun afternoon. Their aquatic antics soon land them in trouble - but perhaps they can put their...

Who said "Neither a lender or borrower be", who loved "not wisely but too well" and whose "salad days" are now behind her? If you have ever struggled to remember...

DK Eyewitness Shakespeare is a spectacular and informative guide to one of history's most well known playwrights. Amazing colour photographs offer your child a unique "eyewitness" view of William Shakespeare....

The book titled 17F: Life of Ian Fleming by the author Donald McCormick. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Keith Waterhouse was born into a world that has now vanished - a soot-blackened, tramcar-rattling provincial city, still late Edwardian or even Victorian in many of its ways, but full...

McCormick's study is the first to show the interrelation of Vanbrugh's seemingly disparate careers as architect and dramatist. Perhaps because his talent embraced two diverse disciplines, Sir John Vanbrugh has...

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans....

The times have forced changes in the way we look at "Richard II" more than any other of Shakespeare's plays. What to his contemporaries was a balanced dramatisation of the...

This book will aid all writers who need to check a spelling quickly and easily. Not only does it show how to spell virtually every word that is likely to...

This enhanced and completely updated edition of our award-winning and best-selling world atlas for middle-grade readers stands in a class by itself! Sparkling throughout with state-of-the-art political, physical, and thematic...

The book titled Chambers Maxi Paperback Dictionary by the author Catherine Schwarz. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Chambers Paperback Thesaurus by the author Catherine Schwarz. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Contains Marlowe's translations of Ovid's "Elegies" and the First Book from Lucan's Civil War, plus the unfinished "Hero and Leander" and the poet's most famous creation, "The Passionate Shepherd to...

For close to 60 years, Kate L. Turabian's "Manual for Writers" has offered detailed guidance to authors of research papers - term papers, theses and dissertations. Now the editors of...

An easy to use word finder of particular help to school students, arranged like a dictionary so you can go straight to the word you want. Paperback book with spiral...

Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language. With carefully adapted...

Dark times lie ahead for Special Agent Ren Bryce and the Rocky Mountains Safe Streets Task Force in the heart-stopping new thriller from the bestselling author of DARKHOUSE and BLOOD...

Shakespeare's pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with blockbuster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many...

Mastering Words provides weekly units of work containing spelling lists, word play, word origin, punctuation, grammar essentials and discussion questions.

"Lorna Doone" is the perenially popular story of how John Ridd, a Devon farmer, falls in love with the aristocratic Lorna Doone, kidnapped as a child by the outlaw Doones...

Keeping pace with the changes in the National Curriculum, this second edition of the "Collins Easy Learning French Dictionary" covers all essential vocabulary for GCSE and Standard Grade, including useful...

Shakespeare's potent use of garden imagery has captivated successive generations of readers and inspired the making of gardens across the globe. Laced with quotations and abounding with illustrations drawn from...

William Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but also a new form of language. In an age of religious and political warfare, they...

Why do certain words make us blush or wince? Why do men and women really speak different languages? Why do nursery rhymes in vastly different societies possess similar rhyme and...

The aim of this book is to explain style in terms which do not presuppose too extensive an acquaintaince on the part of the reader with linguistic terminology. Its orientation...

A guide to English literature from 1900 to the present day. It combines a series of critical essays on understanding modern literature, drama, poetry and the contemporary historical background, with...

The book titled La Mama Poetica by the author Mal Morgan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The fabulous paperback for all fans of Bill Bryson and Melvyn Bragg. When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'?...

The pilgrimage of American writers to Paris began with Henry James over a century ago, and has continued in waves ever since. This book is not concerned with the "lost...

Paper Windows is an outstanding and very popular selection of short short stories. Through these entertaining stories and the exercises and activities which follow, students and teachers can quickly and...

'Riveting, tragic tale' New Yorker 'Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion' Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak...

Though he often wrote in matchless prose, Ruskin's thought developed slowly and sometimes repetitively. His ideas, if we come to them unprepared, can seem obscure, confused, and difficult to grasp....